Competency-Based Education
Competency-Based Education
Competency-Based Education implies leaving behind the A-F grading scale and designing instruction that includes explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives to empower students with specificity in their learning and at its best, enables them to move at their own pace (often coupled with personalized learning). It also emphasizes the same departure of other modern pedagogy in that students create knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge going forward. This topic impacts credentialing, mastery and assessment.
Competency-Based Education
Policy, Pilots and the Path to Competency-Based Education: A Tale of Three States
This publication highlights how and why state Competency-Based Education pilot programs offer a promising strategy by telling the story of three states with the same goal, but different paths.
Competency-Based Education
5 Lessons Learned in Pioneering Personalized Mastery Learning
By: Kate Bean and Sebastian Cognetta, Ph.D. Aveson Charter School has evolved its original personalized learning model into a new vision: Personalized Mastery Learning.
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1Up on Grades
By: Mitch Weisburgh. Three education leaders who are active in the game-based learning movement share their thoughts about leaderboards and competency-based learning in schools.
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How Can You Truly Meet Students Where They Are?
By: Karla Phillips. Meeting students where they are in education may mean redesigning schools away from an age-based grade level system into a competency-based one.
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Building a Movement from Within for Competency-Based Education
By: Patrice Glancey. In transitioning a school to competency-based education, an educator and curriculum consultant shares how the fire of change must start from within with teacher-leaders.
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The Role of Performance Monitoring in Competency-Based Education
By: Jason Ellingson. Competency-based learning may resolve some of the concerns with current approaches to performance monitoring being publicly displayed.
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Elevate and Empower
A Getting Smart paper & infographic, produced in partnership with Rosetta Stone, explores the potential of world language educators leading the shift to school and district-wide blended, competency-based, deeper learning models. A follow-up to “The Next Generation of World Language Learning.”
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Preparing Teachers For Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart white paper that outlines the attributes of next-generation teacher preparation with recommendations to support the development of teacher preparation and development systems.
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Infographic: Competency-Based Teacher Prep & PD
This infographic, “Competency-Based Teacher Preparation & Professional Development,” outlines how the role of teachers is changing amid broader shifts to personalized, blended and deeper learning.
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Assessing Deeper Learning: A Survey of Performance Assessment and Mastery – Tracking Tools
A Getting Smart report that outlines 12 key features of a performance based assessment system and barriers identified in obtaining better tools. This paper outlines platform necessities as Deeper Learning and the application of educational technology continues to progress.